Civilization III Conquests

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Civilization III Conquests
Developer(s)	BreakAway Games
Publisher(s)	Atari
Engine	Custom
Release date(s)	2003
Genre(s)	Turn-based strategy
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Media	CD
Input	Mouse and keyboard

Civilization III: Conquests is the second and final expansion for the award-winning and best-selling computer game Sid Meier's Civilization III. It was published in 2003. This expansion added seven new civilizations to the game, and including the eight civilizations from Play the World this brings the total number of playable civilizations up to thirty-one (the maximum supported by the game). The new civilizations are the Byzantines, the Dutch, the Hittites, the Incans, the Mayans, the Portuguese and the Sumerians. In addition to these playable civilizations, graphics for the Austrians are present in the editor so one can replace an existing civilization.

Two new special abilities (traits) are added in this pack, seafaring and agricultural. The new civilizations take advantage of these new traits (e.g. the Sumerians are Scientific and Agricultural), and the old civilizations are changed to more appropriate ones (e.g. the English have been changed from Expansionist and Commercial to Seafaring and Commercial).

New governments have also been added to the game, Feudalism and Fascism, and new Wonders of the World such as the Statue of Zeus and the Mausoleum of Mausollos. Four new bonus resources have been included, two of which provide food bonuses to previously unprofitable terrain. Oases can now be found in deserts, tropical fruit in jungles, sugar on plains and hills, and tobacco on grasslands and hills. In addition, two new types of terrain have been added. These are marshes and volcanoes. You cannot construct cities on marshes, and you cannot improve volcanoes in any way. Like jungles and flood plains, cities who have at least 1 citizen working marshes may succumb to disease. Volcanoes may periodically erupt, destroying all improvements and cities and killing any units in some or all adjacent squares.

The centerpiece of this expansion pack, however, was the inclusion of scenarios, intended for multiplayer gaming. Unlike the main ("epic") game, these scenarios took much less time to play, and focused on a specific period in history. Scenarios included in this expansion were Mesopotamia, the Rise of Rome, the Fall of Rome, the Middle Ages in Europe, Mesoamerica, the Age of Discovery, the Napoleonic Wars, the Sengoku period in Japan, and World War II in the Pacific.

Generally the reception of this expansion pack was much better than that of Play the World.

One year after Conquests was launched, the latest Civilization III stand-alone version, Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete was also released. This version included Civilization III, Play the World and of course Conquests. This version also includes several patches.

Two years after Conquests was launched, the latest game in the Civilization series was released: Sid Meier's Civilization IV.

[edit] New civilizations in Conquests

Civilization	Qualities	Starting Advances	Special Unit	Leader	Capital
Byzantium	Scientific, Seafaring	Bronze working, Alphabet	Dromon	Theodora	Constantinople
Hittites	Expansionist, Commercial	Pottery, Alphabet	Three-man Chariot	Mursilis I	Hattusas
Incans	Expansionist, Agricultural	Pottery, Masonry	Chasqui scout	Pachacuti	Cuzco
Mayans	Agricultural, Industrious	Masonry, Pottery	Javelin Thrower	Smoke-Jaguar	Chichén Itza
Netherlands	Agricultural, Seafaring	Pottery, Alphabet	Swiss Mercenary	William of Orange	Amsterdam
Portugal	Seafaring, Expansionist	Pottery, Alphabet	Carrack	Henry the Navigator	Lisbon
Sumeria	Scientific, Agricultural	Bronze working, Pottery	Enkidu Warrior	Gilgamesh	Ur
Austria ("Bonus"-Civ: not included in the standard game)	Militaristic, Commercial	Masonry, Warrior Code	Hussar	Charles V	Vienna